Two statewide votes are headlining the election calendar in April. First, Wisconsin will choose a new supreme court justice, ...

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill on Wednesday signed legislation banning local law enforcement agencies from partnering ...

A bill passed by lawmakers would not outright bar local contracts with ICE. But they could continue only if ICE accepts due ...

Last November, the city of Verona, Wisconsin, voted to pull out of the sprawling surveillance network run by tech company ...

Election officials and community groups are holding education campaigns ahead of Washington D.C.’s first use of ranked choice ...

State supreme courts have come under a brighter spotlight as battlefields for some of today’s most pressing issues, from abortion rights and climate to extreme sentencing and ballot access. And ...

T.R. Edwards grew up with stories from his grandmother Kathleen about her struggle to vote as a Black woman in Wisconsin: A child of the Jim Crow south, she’d moved to Madison in the 1970s, and then ...

The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to federal ...

When Australia holds its federal elections on Saturday, it’ll do so with the requirement that all eligible citizens head to the polls and vote. If they don’t, the Australian Electoral Commission will ...

Conservative judges have chipped away at voting rights and put the Voting Rights Act through renewed stress over the last decade. They’re now set to gain new allies with the incoming Trump ...

Donald Trump’s promise of “mass deportations” looms over millions of people who live in the United States. But the infrastructure to detain immigrants didn’t start with Trump. U.S. Immigration & ...

It had been a year since a federal judge ordered the city of Chicago to overhaul its police department. The requirement was to address discriminatory policing and misconduct that had decimated public ...